Answer by kayleeFrye_onDeck for How to uninstall npm modules in node js?

I found this out the hard way, even if it is seemingly obvious.

I initially tried to loop through the node_modules directory running npm uninstall module-name with a simple for loop in a script. I found out it will not work if you call the full path, e.g

npm uninstall module-name

was working, but

npm uninstall /full/path/to/node_modules/module-name 

was not working.